True Stories of the Great War, Volume 4 (of 6) / Tales of Adventure--Heroic Deeds--Exploits Told by the Soldiers, Officers, Nurses, Diplomats, Eye Witnesses

TRUE STORIES OF THE GREAT WAR
TALES OF ADVENTURE—HEROIC DEEDS—EXPLOITS TOLD BY THE SOLDIERS, OFFICERS, NURSES, DIPLOMATS, EYE WITNESSES Collected in Six Volumes From Official and Authoritative Sources ( See Introductory to Volume I ) VOLUME IV Editor-in-Chief FRANCIS TREVELYAN MILLER (Litt. D., LL.D.) Editor of The Search-Light Library 1917 REVIEW OF REVIEWS COMPANY NEW YORK
Copyright, 1917, by REVIEW OF REVIEWS COMPANY
The following stories have been selected for VOLUME IV by the Board of Editors, according to the plan outlined in Introductory to Volume I for collecting from all sources the Best Stories of the War. This group includes personal experiences of Soldiers at the front, Submarine Officers, Aviators, Prisoners, Ambulance Drivers, Red Cross Nurses, Priests, Spies, and American Eye-Witnesses. They have been collected from twenty-eight of the most authentic sources in Europe and America and include 134 adventures and episodes. Full credit is given in every instance to the original source.
VOLUME IV—TWENTY-EIGHT STORY-TELLERS—134 EPISODES
THE GLAD HAND An American Sailor in London Meets a Friend in the Canadian Army
THE STARS AND STRIPES PASSES THROUGH LONDON TOWN The Parade of the First American Contingent Past Cheering Multitudes of Londoners
A LONG WAY FROM THE POLO GROUNDS The Germans Complain That the English Don't Take War With Proper Seriousness: They Actually Play Football Between Shock Attacks. The American is Just as Bad: These Members of Admiral Sims' Destroyer Squadron Must Have Their Baseball in England as at Home.
SEEING THEMSELVES IN THE HOME PAPER American Nurses Who Have Just Found Pictures of Themselves

Experiences of an American Woman During the German Invasion
Told by Madame Laura de Gozdawa Turczynowicz

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2015-07-07

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World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives

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